Present status and future perspectives for the EXO-200 experiment

Abstract

The EXO collaboration has built and operated a 200 kg liquid xenon detector for studies of double beta decay. This paper summarizes the results obtained so far and their significance. The excellent performance of the detector encourages the concept of a much larger detector to obtain improved sensitivity to the possible detection of the neutrinoless decay mode of xenon. © 2013 Giorgio Gratta and David Sinclair.